I 'm a Cloud-aholic

Ever changing clouds patterns give me sense of wonderment.

Here’s a twilight view looking out from Kohloy Recreation Park immediately after sunset. Rays from the fading sun bounce against a carpet of altocumulus clouds, and the result is an impressive display of vivid textures across the landscape.

If you’re a closet cloud-aholic too, feel free to contribute here.

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Hi @user_not_found ,

Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful sunset and at the same time starting this poetic and cloud-aholic thread.

Hope to see soon other lovely contributions adding up here with some information related to the locations where the clouds were spotted (and captured) by the photographer and also a part of landscape in it, as you cleverly did.

Have a great cloud hunting around the world, Local Guides! And don’t forget to fill up the “Location” field on your post to help others find it;).

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Many thanks for the message MariaB.

Evidently I’m in a crowd of precisely one on this theme but hey, no worries. Makes it more of an, erm…, exclusive thread, no?

I’ll do my level best to fill in some of the blanks others leave behind.

As far as local tourism is concerned, rainy season (not now) is low season. Yet for me it’s the absolute best time of year when our skies offer a far more captivating narrative than your average tv soap.

Here’s a burst of cloud nicely complemented by a wave of human hair as this vehicle sweeps by on a bridge across the Kok River, Chiang Rai.

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Great post, @user_not_found , beautiful post. I like it at 100%.

Non so dire se queste sono nuvole o una nebbia talmente fitta da avere il colore e la consistenza delle nuvole. Ero in vacanza in Toscana, nel Mugello, e aprendo la finestra la mattina ho avuto la precisa sensazione di essere SOPRA le nuvole.

Questo è quello che ho visto

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See angry clouds and lightning strikes during one heck of a wicked night across Chiang Rai. Both myself and camera took a fair beasting from the rain.

Then came a look of relative calm (second photo). It’s oh so deceptive, was actually the lead edge to a next wave of storm.

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Wow, @user_not_found , Just wow!!!

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I appreciate the wow. Not sure it’s fully deserved but yep, I’ll take that and run!!

Best

Paul

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24 hours before November’s supermoon was due, I did a test run in search a landscape to overlook the exact direction of where our moon would rise next day.

One particular cloud formation caused mixed emotions of a) Joy - another not to be missed photo opportunity, and b) abject horror - like oh no, this lump of cloud is in my line of fire, please don’t let there be a repeat performance tomorrow!

By resting so neatly inside a mountain cavity, the cloud here mimics active volcano

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The cloudaholic thread is such a lonely space it’s left to myself once again to fill in another blank.

Here’s a rogue storm cloud competing with bright blue sky above Chiang Rai Old Airport.

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thanks for starting th ethread @user_not_found

I love clouds too - they never appears same in my entire live :slight_smile:

gear : eos30d

enhanched w/ Photomatixpro

cheers,

Andrey

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It makes my day to see another contribution. When compared to the (deserved) attention AveR’s Sunrise/Sunset thread gets, this board remains like a distant impoverished relative.

Storm Eats Mountain

Here’s one tsunami of a storm as it gradually consumes the mountainside at Doi Mae Salong, Chiang Rai Province.

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Dear @user_not_found , se vuoi avere la mia opinione, questo Topic è uno dei migliori che io abbia mai visto in “Photos and Discoveries”, e credimi che in cinque mesi ne ho visti molti.

Come sappiamo bene Tramonti e Fiori sono tra le cose più fotografate da tutti. Inoltre è difficile scattare una brutta foto di un fiore o di un tramonto, in quanto la bellezza intrinseca del soggetto diventa più importante della qualità dell’immagine.

Metti assieme queste due cose e vedrai che sono Topic ai quali è facile contribuire, il loro valore è che permettono a molti di partecipare, e questa è una buona cosa.

Il tuo invece è un topic “potente”, in cui l’immagine racconta molto di più della propria bellezza. Questo topic fa fare alla nostra mente un lavoro di “immaginazione”, le nuvole non raccontano solo di se ma anche molto di quello che sembrano, di quello che ci ricordano, ci fanno sentire il vento e la pioggia sulla faccia. Chi propone delle immagini in questo Topic propone perciò anche dei racconti, espressi nelle parole ma anche contenuti nelle immagini stesse.

Ho provato a fare un’analisi del mettendo a confronto “Immagine e Immaginazione” in questo post, e come vedrai ho avuto SOLO due risposte pertinenti. Mi sembra quasi che scrivendolo ho intimorito gli altri.

Ho fatto un altro test mettendo dei fiori, con la regola del “Five petals only”. La regola è durata pochissimo.

Perciò non ti preoccupare, e persevera con i tuoi post.

Grazie

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Hello fellow cloud-aholic! Here’s mine:

At Mosfellsbær, Iceland

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And these clouds, @user_not_found , are from London - Penge East station - sunrise.

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@MariaBi Awesome, romantic.

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Many thanks, @Myrathor - at sunrise the air is so sharp and bright in UK - especially if it is very cold.

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Awesome, @user_not_found

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Mmmmm!!

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Hey, turn my back for a day and the thread throws a party, right? It’s great to see a few contributions arrived.

This is a storm about to touch down. I took an extreme soaking in exchange for stopping here to take a set of photos.

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@user_not_found Awesome! Nice photo. What is this place that got wet?

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